WHAT'S NEW?

The core of this site remains the same, but every now and then I keep adding new examples and occasionally new sections. Transcribing the more complex Zappa compositions is much time consuming, so all is deposited and/or included in printed versions to protect my authorship. This site is mostly a transcribing effort, once you've got the notes analyzing them doesn't mean that much, you just need to know what the terms stand for and peer at the notes for a while. The printed versions can be ordered and are included in various libraries worldwide.

A third printed edition of 230 pages is now available (spring 2007), click here for information.

July 2008:

- Friendly little finger
- Dog breath variations
- San Ber'dino
- Heavenly bank account
- Packard goose
- What's the ugliest part of your body?
- Pick me, I'm clean
- Twenty small cigars

March 2008:

- Wistful wit a fistful
- St. Alfonso/Father O'blivion
- RDNZL
- Sleep dirt
- Stevie's spanking
- Magdalena
- Brain police (1971, Beat the boots section)
- Conehead (1978, Beat the boots section)
- Greggery Peccary mvt. I interlude
- Outside now again
- Damp ankels
- Soul polka
- Your mouth
- Zoot allures: midi file added

September 2007:

- Honey, don't you want a man like me?
- Sinister footwear I
- Pedro's dowry
- The grand wazoo
- Another whole melodic section
- Manx needs women
- Be-bop tango
- Sheik Yerbouti tango
- When yuppies go to hell
- Help, I'm a rock
- Monster magnet fragment
- What will Rumi do?
- T'Mershi Duween

June 2007:

- Punky's whips
- The purple lagoon/Approximate
- Pygmy twylyte
- Bwana dick
- Nun suit
- Zolar Czakl
- It's from Kansas
- Bow tie daddy
- I was a teenage maltshop
- Status back baby
- Bossa Nova
- Mondo Hollywood
- Xmas values

Third printed edition, Spring 2007:

- Hot plate heaven at the Green hotel
- For Giuseppe Franco
- Montana

November 2006:

- Trance-fusion
- Put a motor in yourself: extended
- Any kind of pain
- Little umbrellas
- Inca roads
- I promise not to come in your mouth
- Tink walks amok
- Panty rap
- Muffin man
- Didja get any onya?
- Lumber truck solo-Weasels transition
- Baked bean boogie
- The little march
- Valley girl
- I come from nowhere: enlarged

May 2006:

- Imaginary diseases
- No more Mr. nice girl
- Heavy duty judy (1988)
- Plastic people (1967)
- Trouble every day
- Igor's boogie, phase II
- Aerobics in bondage
- I don't even care
- Greggery Peccary
- The ocean is the ultimate solution
- Mo 'n Herb's vacation third midi file added
- Dupree's paradise
- Ruth is sleeping
- Babette

March 2006:

- Shall we take ourselves seriously
- Jones crusher
- Brixton still life
- Scumbag
- Agency man
- Epilogue
- Canadian customs
- Republicans
- Return of the son of Shut up 'n play yer guitar
- Why Johnny can't read
- Pink napkins
- Ride my face to Chicago
- Thirteen
- The torture never stops: opening

Fall 2005:

- Approximate
- Night school
- I'm the slime
- Sad Jane
- Beat the reaper
- Down in de dew
- Duck duck goose
- Lost in a whirlpool
- Easy meat
- She painted up her face
- Chunga's revenge
- For Calvin
- It just might be a one-shot deal
- Fembot in a wet T-shirt
- I ain't got no heart: more detailed

June 2005:

- Call any vegetable
- Project X
- Latex solar beef
- You are what you is
- Beauty knows no pain
- The radio is broken
- Marque-Son's chicken
- Absolutely free
- Does humor belong in music section
- Igor's boogie, phase I

Fall 2003 - March 2005:

- Orchestral favorites section
- Singles 1962-1964
- The world's greatest sinner
- Watermelon in easter hay
- Peaches en regalia
- Ensemble Modern section
- Black page #1: midi file added
- Music for low budget orchestra: midi file added
- Cheap thrills: extended
- Jelly roll gum drop
- You didn't try to call me: extended and notation changed
- No not now - Won ton on
- Evelyn
- Nanook rubs it
- Eat that question
- Penis dimension: example extended and midi file added
- FZ:OZ section
- Lumpy gravy section
- Conventions and extras section
- One man - one vote
- Titties and beer
- Dirty love

Because the prints of the 2001 2nd edition recently sold out, I've had new copies made in May 2003. These reprints of the 2nd edition include the extensions I've made in 2002-start of 2003. They are added as a ten page appendix to the reprinted version and concern:

- Mo' mama guitar solo opening, score from the Guitar book
- Yo' mama guitar solo section (transcription)
- Sunrise redeemer opening (transcription)
- Filthy habits opening (transcription)
- Tell me you love me opening (transcription)
- Willy the pimp, theme (transcription)
- Get whitey, orchestra score excerpts
- Jazz discharge party hats, score fragment
- The girl in the magnesium dress, score excerpts
- Edchina's arf of you: metres at the end corrected